单词 | ruddiness |
释义 | ruddinessn. The quality of being ruddy; red or reddish colour, esp. of a person's complexion; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] rednesseOE rudOE red?c1225 ruddya1387 ruddinessa1398 gulesa1400 rothumc1400 ruddeningc1400 ruddonc1400 rouge1437 rubor?a1450 rossome1527 Mars1572 rubedinousness1599 reddiness1611 scarletness1611 rubetude1657 floridity1713 erubescence1736 floridness1776 fiery1847 raddle1860 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with health rudOE colourc1330 ruddinessa1398 rosec1425 livelihood1566 glowa1616 quickness1656 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 45v Gadir þou þe lippis..to tokene defaute and strengþe of vertue by rodynes [L. rubicunditate] & blones þerof. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. ix. sig. I.ijv They taught to peynt the blacke of eies, and ruddines of chekes. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Purpureus Purple colour; blacke mixed with a certaine ruddinesse. c1610–15 tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Life St. Gorgonia in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 160 That ruddines onelie liked her, which shame~fastnes and bashfullnes produced. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 317 A face whose ruddiness argued a perfect recovery. 1703 tr. P. Dionis Anat. Humane Bodies Improv'd 39 I do believe that..the Ruddiness which comely persons do use to have in those places, have caused them all to be call'd by the name de la Pommette, in French. 1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. xvi. 390 He that increases in bulk, commonly increases with ruddiness. 1836 J. Grant Random Recoll. House of Lords ix. 197 His complexion is fair, mingled with a good deal of ruddiness. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 146 As the sun sank lower the ruddiness of his light augmented. 1877 Pop. Sci. Monthly Suppl. 364/1 We may well believe that the ruddiness of the soil of Mars is due to the same general cause as the ruddiness of our red sandstone. 1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 275/2 One sees it in the face, which is not of the cool ruddiness or fine pallor which becomes a Picturesque Statesman. 1985 G. Ehrlich Solace Open Spaces 126 Cottonwoods, willows, and wild rose engorge themselves with every hue of ruddiness—russet, puce, umber, bold, musteline. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 11 Mar. 40 The skin-care mavens..enlisted [a] dermatologist..to devise this superlight gel, which battles postwinter ruddiness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398 |
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